This was great! I still remember seeing those in the hobby shop, but I was WAY more enamored with the locomotives! Now as I have aged I can really appreciate these. Thanks for showing them! And Karyn, money spent on trains is always only half as much!
You never cease to amaze me. I've not seen a model kit house since the early 70's. The buildings that are missing parts can be used as old rundown dilapidated model scenery. Thanks for the memories.
Great episode! These old kits are really cool. I still have some of the old AHM and IHC kits from the early 70s. Seeing these Revell kits took me back to about 1958 or so, when I got my first American Flyer for Christmas. There was a hobby shop that I lived close to, and they carried Bachmann's Plasticville kits. I used to take my 8 year old self there to just stare at them, I thought they were so cool. Good stuff from the olden days! Thanks for posting this!
Some of the AHM were Revell after Revell got in financial trouble. In fact the bakery was offered for a short Time by AHM before ending up as a Heljan ConCor kit. The plasticville were so basic but less than half the price of Revall or Atlas. To this day my favorite thing to model is a structure
Man, I learned a lot from building models. Interpreting the directions was difficult for a 7-year-old with no help. . . anyway, I ended up a tool & diemaker - blueprints were a piece of cake! Revell and Monogram were my favorite models to build. The quality was best in those two.
I used to build these kits back in the early 1960s. The detail and subtilties were just fantastic, giving a realism that was simply amazing and not found elsewhere. Whoever designed and made the dies for these kits had amazing skills to say the least. What happened to bring me to your channel today, (even though I am a subscriber), was a search to see if these kits were still being produced. My favorites were the engine house and the sand and pump house, but the bakery was also a nice kit. Unfortunately, we never had the room for a layout then and this holds true now as well, but just building and painting these kits alone and to accent the built-in details was a lot of fun.
DEL YOU AND KAREN BOTH ARE VERY GOOD CRAFTSMAN AND HAVE GOOD EYES AND YOUR ABILITIES ARE AWESOME GOOD THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT AND TIME I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👍 😊
There are many many more kits thats they offered. Trackside and yard buildings, school house, shopping center, gravel factory, and many more. Very good quality kits. Dont leave in a hot attic. They will warp easily
Our attic is air conditioned. Yup we are nuts. But I think we have like 30,000 in models up there. So... Revell had the best structures. And Atlas but Atlas didn’t offer as many. But I think Revell had around 30 different structures.
Another great video. I'm visiting grandkids in Japan right now so I can't watch your videos on the day they come out because by time they come out it's the next day here. However, I did get to ride the Shinkansen (bullet train) at 210 mph so I suppose I should stop my whining. So far, Wednesday has been pretty good here, hope it's just as good by time it gets to you!
"That's what memories are al l about Charlie Brown.." What we go through for a golden moment from our youth. A nice piece and glimpse at the Angell Brother's youth. greg and Jeanne
Greg Uzar hi you all! Hope you are well. Fun to see in my mind that old layout. Classic 4x8 double loop with two crossovers and 3 sidings. And about 154 structures. Perhaps more. Even then I loved structures. Mostly Revell. But a few Atlas. And one plasticville. And a Sydham.
I enjoyed watching this. Revel made all kinds of neat models. I always wished I had bought the Off Shore Oil Platform model. Still would like to get their V2 model as well.
Those kits also usually had a couple of figures in each - STILL among the best looking scale people ever made. IIRC the kits were designed by noted Modeler Al Armitage. Amazing die work. They have been offered by a couple if companies since, including AHM or IHC. I have a couple in my build pile.
I remember those building kits still being available in early seventies as I remember. One of my friends had a fairly large layout in his bedroom and his parents got him three or four of each of the buildings that he built them up and then dress them up for different buildings really look neat. The last I heard of my friend Kenny he was doing miniature models for the entertainment industry he was quite the Craftsman when it came to his model building
These changed what people saw as possible. Really a turning point. I saw structures in a new way after getting these. And a ton of new products came out after these structures
@@ToyManTelevision yeah I would say you're right. I remember seeing a lot more accessories for train layouts after seeing these kits. So really Ravell started the whole pre-made accessories for your different train gauges if you want to be honest. Or started the trend to pre-made kits for model railroading.
And it’s just a great structure. So many were kitbashed. DPM came out later with wall sections just for bashing. But I think these buildings led the way. By 1970 hundreds had been cut up and cut down and really started a trend in bashing brick buildings. Before this all brick structures were paper. And a very few vacuum formed. But 99% embossed paper.
@@ToyManTelevision - The Superior Bakery could be either an on-line or off-line industry. There are large bakeries that receive the ingredients by rail & may still ship some baked goods by rail. The door on this building looks like it faces an alley & would receive the ingredients by a road vehicle from the railroad's freight station.
Yup. For a short time AHM but ConCor bought out all the Revell structures. And they pantographed the bakery down to n scale. Which is the only thing still on the market new. There are thousands of the HO out there but it hasn’t been run for over 10 years.
Yup. There are some cool ones out there. This is a list I made years ago of cool o scale structures. As it’s old I have no idea how much of this is still available but heck everything is on eBay. www.oscaleguys.com/sites/catalog/catalog-structures-o.html
Since Revell ( glad you are finally pronouncing it right! Never heard it any other way ) and Round2 are into this re-releasing old kits thing right now, maybe these will get updated and brought back out.
Nice kits! For one time, the French pronunciation is the correct one! Even if I had my first layout around late 80s, early 90s, I didn't take a lot photos of it (if I had), it was before I took the photo bug, and even after film was still expansive!
Yup. I wish I had taken more photos but the roll cost a couple of bucks and the processing set you back several more. Really got expensive. Many shot slides because it was half as much.
@@ToyManTelevision When I was in airshow, I could fill up to 4 rolls (36 slides each), which was indeed expansive, but now it is more or less free (well, I would have killed a cheap DSLR shutter since long ago as I have more than 50 000 photos on current DSLR)
The bakery is in fact one of the best kits. Interestingly, if you put a ruler on the bricks, they measure very close to O and have kit-bashed parts into spectacular buildings.
I enjoyed the Revell bulldings I built the engine house. I just left the doors open. Have you seen the 1/48 western wagons Revell made ? I think Adams made them first and I think Glencoe model are remaking again. keep up the good work!
The narrow gauge railroad inside the print shop reminds me of the " Old Time Factory ", made by Pola. The building is an abandoned Brick Works & was sold by AHM & Tyco. The base of the Old Time Factory has narrow gauge railroad tracks molded into the base & a ramp. The tracks are outdoors & have ties. There is also a small turntable like the one in the print shop. I suspect the purpose of the railway was to bring cartloads of freshly molded clay bricks & coal ( or charcoal ) to the kilns; to transport the baked-solid bricks to the warehouse, & also to transload the bricks onto another form of transportation for shipment to the construction site. I think Micro Mark sells embossed brick paper & roof shingle paper in O & HO scales.
I must have seen such a thing as a child because it’s burned into my unconscious. I see a narrow gauge, 18 inch or 12? In a cobblestone street going into a shop. Like a locomotive shop. Then last year we found exactly that at the Evanston Union Pacific roundhouse. They have (had) a 30 inch railroad going from the foundry to the roundhouse. Mostly gone buy WOW. Also the Guinness brewery has a 2 foot railroad inside and outside the brick.building. Steam locomotives! Open toe board, no cab. Just a tiny boiler and a 0-4-0 locomotive. No tender. Sort of a saddle tank. Yup I’m modeling it! In 5/8 inch scale. So far I have the figure and an KGB locomotive to rework. Started 6 years ago just before the big layoff and retirement. But in order to get it right I feel we need to go to Ireland for research. Moreover we have had little experience with Guinness beer. I doubt we have drank over 3 gallons ever. So we need to get caught up on that.
@@ToyManTelevision - I should try a Guinness myself sometime. I could see a narrow gauge railway to transport large, heavy sand - casted parts from an engine yard foundry to the roundhouse. The Guinness brewery engine might be a Fireless Steam Locomotive - they were often used in industrial plants that had flammable gasses inside of buildings. I heard of one that was used to switch inside an automobile tire factory.
I've actually hauled rolls of paper it's really heavy they don't load paper on pallets I just put forth on the floor and put the paper rolls on top most places have paper roll grabbers on the forklifts
Revell only made compact (face powder) cases for Revlon--not cosmetics. Revell was a name that emerged from a company contest. Comes from the French 'Reviel.'The engine house came before the bakery and print shop. All of Revell's structures were custom designed by a master modeler on contract. Most of the tooling is still in use today through a variety of manufacturers--and they still look great.
The engine shop really opens a new branch of train modeling. Before only a few hard core modelers practiced weathering and hi craft. Suddenly everyone was.
Many modelers kitbashed the enginehouse into other models. I can remember many a Railroad Model Craftsman kitbash award going to a structure that started as a Revell kit. Also didn't Ed Roth design models for Revell. I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for Revell(interesting history). Rgds IGN
Yup. Revell was very aggressive in getting into many markets. Our friend Jim was just a kid building great contest winning cars. And they recruited him to go to work before he even was out of high school. When he graduated they put him on full time making more money than his father. To build models. And enter contests. And tell them what the “kids” wanted. We knew Ed. Long story. But they also recruited him. As he was making hot rods they wanted to offer his cars. And then Rat Fink took off. They all made millions just off the Rat.
The Engine House came first... The others were adaptations to make use of existing tooling to create new sales. I recall that the designs were developed by Al Armatage.
I have always pronounced the name as Re-velle because of the two ls on the end. And those "eyebrow" arches Karyn talked about is an architectural element that apparently came from Germany because it is commonly found on German buildings.
I was blown away to find out they were originally a cosmetic company. And the arches are an early form that became “brick curtain”. Often used in industries in the mid 20th century. Brick curtain uses a concrete framework as the structure. Posts and beams. Like a steel frame but concrete. Then brick is used between the columns to fill in and create solid walls. Super strong. Bricks alone are a weak structure. Tippy. Fall down in an earthquake The arches create a framework with brick curtain. Even more arches inside arches. And a concept over 1000 years old! And flat cool looking
the artwork on the old boxes,nothing compares for me. my favorite one is the carpenter street from tyco with 3 kits. i never seen one in life and around one month ago i found one sealed. i was unsure it was really a actual model. is plastic surgery kinda like a idiot light in a auto. those giant rolls of paper contain around 55 miles of paper per roll.
Hi. They are back. Been offered under other names but many of the old kits are back under their original names however they are all actually the same US company that bought all the molds and names. Many are not available as the molds are missing or damaged. I met the guys doing this. Young guys on a mission to save all the old kits and brands. And make a few million in the process. Which is even better! Go for it! So far so good.
What a great couple. She shares in her husband’s passion - good marriage. 👍🏻
Yup!!!!!
Thank you for posting this and taking me back to my childhood.
These were really amazing kits.
This was great! I still remember seeing those in the hobby shop, but I was WAY more enamored with the locomotives! Now as I have aged I can really appreciate these. Thanks for showing them!
And Karyn, money spent on trains is always only half as much!
I keep telling her that. Good thing is she agrees.
You’re a lucky man, Dale!
You never cease to amaze me. I've not seen a model kit house since the early 70's. The buildings that are missing parts can be used as old rundown dilapidated model scenery.
Thanks for the memories.
When it comes to railroad kits the junk box is the treasure chest
You guys are a great couple!
Thanks!!!
Thanks for sharing great job
Thanks!! Really great models.
Great episode! These old kits are really cool. I still have some of the old AHM and IHC kits from the early 70s. Seeing these Revell kits took me back to about 1958 or so, when I got my first American Flyer for Christmas. There was a hobby shop that I lived close to, and they carried Bachmann's Plasticville kits. I used to take my 8 year old self there to just stare at them, I thought they were so cool. Good stuff from the olden days! Thanks for posting this!
Some of the AHM were Revell after Revell got in financial trouble. In fact the bakery was offered for a short Time by AHM before ending up as a Heljan ConCor kit. The plasticville were so basic but less than half the price of Revall or Atlas. To this day my favorite thing to model is a structure
I got the Herald and the Bakery for Christmas, back in 1979! I still have them, but they could use some fixing up!
Yup! That’s the way of things right? But have some fun. Make a little project out of fixing them up. For a diorama or layout or just for fun.
Man, I learned a lot from building models. Interpreting the directions was difficult for a 7-year-old with no help. . . anyway, I ended up a tool & diemaker - blueprints were a piece of cake!
Revell and Monogram were my favorite models to build. The quality was best in those two.
These were fun to alter. You could learn a lot about how buildings are built and designed.
I used to build these kits back in the early 1960s. The detail and subtilties were just fantastic, giving a realism that was simply amazing and not found elsewhere. Whoever designed and made the dies for these kits had amazing skills to say the least. What happened to bring me to your channel today, (even though I am a subscriber), was a search to see if these kits were still being produced. My favorites were the engine house and the sand and pump house, but the bakery was also a nice kit. Unfortunately, we never had the room for a layout then and this holds true now as well, but just building and painting these kits alone and to accent the built-in details was a lot of fun.
I like the AHM kits
Wonderful episode! Love the buildings and the box art!! Very cool!!!
Great old kits! A turning point for model railroads
DEL YOU AND KAREN BOTH ARE VERY GOOD CRAFTSMAN AND HAVE GOOD EYES AND YOUR ABILITIES ARE AWESOME GOOD THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT AND TIME I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👍 😊
I remember using some of these in my model train set of the old town I live in
Yes! We all did that! What a great time!
If we could do a lot more than we all could with the model railways we would be masters
There are many many more kits thats they offered. Trackside and yard buildings, school house, shopping center, gravel factory, and many more. Very good quality kits. Dont leave in a hot attic. They will warp easily
Our attic is air conditioned. Yup we are nuts. But I think we have like 30,000 in models up there. So... Revell had the best structures. And Atlas but Atlas didn’t offer as many. But I think Revell had around 30 different structures.
Love your videos keep smacking them they inspire me to do this sort of stuff even more than usual
Thanks. Build something cool!
Another great video. I'm visiting grandkids in Japan right now so I can't watch your videos on the day they come out because by time they come out it's the next day here. However, I did get to ride the Shinkansen (bullet train) at 210 mph so I suppose I should stop my whining. So far, Wednesday has been pretty good here, hope it's just as good by time it gets to you!
Wow. We wanna ride too!
Awesome!
Historic. Really fun memorable and historical
Happy childhoods make great people. 🍻
And dogs too. Happy puppies are the best dogs. And badgers.OK not badgers..
"That's what memories are al l about Charlie Brown.." What we go through for a golden moment from our youth. A nice piece and glimpse at the Angell Brother's youth. greg and Jeanne
Greg Uzar hi you all! Hope you are well. Fun to see in my mind that old layout. Classic 4x8 double loop with two crossovers and 3 sidings. And about 154 structures. Perhaps more. Even then I loved structures. Mostly Revell. But a few Atlas. And one plasticville. And a Sydham.
I enjoyed watching this. Revel made all kinds of neat models. I always wished I had bought the Off Shore Oil Platform model. Still would like to get their V2 model as well.
Ken Shores V2 is a great model. Really, da bomb!
That was a cute video AND informative.
Thanks!
Those kits also usually had a couple of figures in each - STILL among the best looking scale people ever made. IIRC the kits were designed by noted Modeler Al Armitage. Amazing die work. They have been offered by a couple if companies since, including AHM or IHC. I have a couple in my build pile.
Wow! Al Armitage!!! That explains a lot!!!! Thanks for that information
I wonder who ones the tooling today. If it's still in good shape
I remember those building kits still being available in early seventies as I remember. One of my friends had a fairly large layout in his bedroom and his parents got him three or four of each of the buildings that he built them up and then dress them up for different buildings really look neat. The last I heard of my friend Kenny he was doing miniature models for the entertainment industry he was quite the Craftsman when it came to his model building
These changed what people saw as possible. Really a turning point. I saw structures in a new way after getting these. And a ton of new products came out after these structures
@@ToyManTelevision yeah I would say you're right. I remember seeing a lot more accessories for train layouts after seeing these kits. So really Ravell started the whole pre-made accessories for your different train gauges if you want to be honest. Or started the trend to pre-made kits for model railroading.
The Weekly Herald could be a trackside industry. Many newspaper print shops got their newsprint in by rail.
And it’s just a great structure. So many were kitbashed. DPM came out later with wall sections just for bashing. But I think these buildings led the way. By 1970 hundreds had been cut up and cut down and really started a trend in bashing brick buildings. Before this all brick structures were paper. And a very few vacuum formed. But 99% embossed paper.
@@ToyManTelevision - The Superior Bakery could be either an on-line or off-line industry. There are large bakeries that receive the ingredients by rail & may still ship some baked goods by rail. The door on this building looks like it faces an alley & would receive the ingredients by a road vehicle from the railroad's freight station.
I've had one of these on my layout since 1985. I believe at that time the kits were distributed by ConCor.
Yup. For a short time AHM but ConCor bought out all the Revell structures. And they pantographed the bakery down to n scale. Which is the only thing still on the market new. There are thousands of the HO out there but it hasn’t been run for over 10 years.
After 63 years, I just learned "Rev-'ELLE"!
Us too. Jim chewed us out!
Thats funny, We always pronounced it correctly.... starting in the 50s
So cool! I haven't seen buildings like that since I was a kid. Do you have any suggestions for O scale buildings for a On3 layout
Yup. There are some cool ones out there. This is a list I made years ago of cool o scale structures. As it’s old I have no idea how much of this is still available but heck everything is on eBay. www.oscaleguys.com/sites/catalog/catalog-structures-o.html
That will need to be copied and pasted I think. Not sure why it’s not working
Thank you so much. I have models from wild west and banta, bu I'm looking for more options so thank you. I'll look into that site.
Since Revell ( glad you are finally pronouncing it right! Never heard it any other way ) and Round2 are into this re-releasing old kits thing right now, maybe these will get updated and brought back out.
Hope so.
I got one of those weekly herald ones for $2 at a train show!
Score!
Nice kits! For one time, the French pronunciation is the correct one!
Even if I had my first layout around late 80s, early 90s, I didn't take a lot photos of it (if I had), it was before I took the photo bug, and even after film was still expansive!
Yup. I wish I had taken more photos but the roll cost a couple of bucks and the processing set you back several more. Really got expensive. Many shot slides because it was half as much.
@@ToyManTelevision When I was in airshow, I could fill up to 4 rolls (36 slides each), which was indeed expansive, but now it is more or less free (well, I would have killed a cheap DSLR shutter since long ago as I have more than 50 000 photos on current DSLR)
there would be a lot less selfies in a world where a picture cost a dollar xD
Yup!!! And long distance phone calls 33 cents a minute (3 bucks today). Put the phone away! Or go broke!
They are classic in N and HO
At the Evanston show last week there were no less than 3 of these on the modular layouts. Classic.
The bakery is in fact one of the best kits. Interestingly, if you put a ruler on the bricks, they measure very close to O and have kit-bashed parts into spectacular buildings.
I’ve seen them used in sooooo many ways!
I enjoyed the Revell bulldings I built the engine house. I just left the doors open. Have you seen the 1/48 western wagons Revell made ? I think Adams made them first and I think Glencoe model are remaking again. keep up the good work!
The wagons sound cool!!! Googling....
Yup. Cool. Interesting company
I just got the 1/48 Glencoe reissue of the covered wagon with oxen. The dies are still quite workable, as the parts look fine.
The narrow gauge railroad inside the print shop reminds me of the " Old Time Factory ", made by Pola. The building is an abandoned Brick Works & was sold by AHM & Tyco. The base of the Old Time Factory has narrow gauge railroad tracks molded into the base & a ramp. The tracks are outdoors & have ties. There is also a small turntable like the one in the print shop. I suspect the purpose of the railway was to bring cartloads of freshly molded clay bricks & coal ( or charcoal ) to the kilns; to transport the baked-solid bricks to the warehouse, & also to transload the bricks onto another form of transportation for shipment to the construction site. I think Micro Mark sells embossed brick paper & roof shingle paper in O & HO scales.
I must have seen such a thing as a child because it’s burned into my unconscious. I see a narrow gauge, 18 inch or 12? In a cobblestone street going into a shop. Like a locomotive shop. Then last year we found exactly that at the Evanston Union Pacific roundhouse. They have (had) a 30 inch railroad going from the foundry to the roundhouse. Mostly gone buy WOW. Also the Guinness brewery has a 2 foot railroad inside and outside the brick.building. Steam locomotives! Open toe board, no cab. Just a tiny boiler and a 0-4-0 locomotive. No tender. Sort of a saddle tank. Yup I’m modeling it! In 5/8 inch scale. So far I have the figure and an KGB locomotive to rework. Started 6 years ago just before the big layoff and retirement. But in order to get it right I feel we need to go to Ireland for research. Moreover we have had little experience with Guinness beer. I doubt we have drank over 3 gallons ever. So we need to get caught up on that.
@@ToyManTelevision - I should try a Guinness myself sometime. I could see a narrow gauge railway to transport large, heavy sand - casted parts from an engine yard foundry to the roundhouse. The Guinness brewery engine might be a Fireless Steam Locomotive - they were often used in industrial plants that had flammable gasses inside of buildings. I heard of one that was used to switch inside an automobile tire factory.
I've actually hauled rolls of paper it's really heavy they don't load paper on pallets I just put forth on the floor and put the paper rolls on top most places have paper roll grabbers on the forklifts
Just plain huge!!! And heavy.
Revell only made compact (face powder) cases for Revlon--not cosmetics. Revell was a name that emerged from a company contest. Comes from the French 'Reviel.'The engine house came before the bakery and print shop. All of Revell's structures were custom designed by a master modeler on contract. Most of the tooling is still in use today through a variety of manufacturers--and they still look great.
The engine shop really opens a new branch of train modeling. Before only a few hard core modelers practiced weathering and hi craft. Suddenly everyone was.
Many modelers kitbashed the enginehouse into other models. I can remember many a Railroad Model Craftsman kitbash award going to a structure that started as a Revell kit.
Also didn't Ed Roth design models for Revell. I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for Revell(interesting history).
Rgds IGN
Yup. Revell was very aggressive in getting into many markets. Our friend Jim was just a kid building great contest winning cars. And they recruited him to go to work before he even was out of high school. When he graduated they put him on full time making more money than his father. To build models. And enter contests. And tell them what the “kids” wanted. We knew Ed. Long story. But they also recruited him. As he was making hot rods they wanted to offer his cars. And then Rat Fink took off. They all made millions just off the Rat.
The Engine House came first... The others were adaptations to make use of existing tooling to create new sales. I recall that the designs were developed by Al Armatage.
Yup! Didn’t know until we saw comments
I have always pronounced the name as Re-velle because of the two ls on the end. And those "eyebrow" arches Karyn talked about is an architectural element that apparently came from Germany because it is commonly found on German buildings.
I was blown away to find out they were originally a cosmetic company. And the arches are an early form that became “brick curtain”. Often used in industries in the mid 20th century. Brick curtain uses a concrete framework as the structure. Posts and beams. Like a steel frame but concrete. Then brick is used between the columns to fill in and create solid walls. Super strong. Bricks alone are a weak structure. Tippy. Fall down in an earthquake The arches create a framework with brick curtain. Even more arches inside arches. And a concept over 1000 years old! And flat cool looking
If they're not in production they should be. Even if the walls were added to the DPM line
Actually, that shag carpet in the hallway photo very much has the feel of old pictures from the US midwest.
Right? Love that old photo.
the artwork on the old boxes,nothing compares for me. my favorite one is the carpenter street from tyco with 3 kits. i never seen one in life and around one month ago i found one sealed. i was unsure it was really a actual model. is plastic surgery kinda like a idiot light in a auto. those giant rolls of paper contain around 55 miles of paper per roll.
And those rolls only last 30 minutes or so. Zip it e do da! 100,000 papers per hour!
Pre Made HO buildings or kit bash?
The n scale is built. Ho are kits. But many kit bash them.
I have always pronounced it the same way you do - so as I am always ;-) right, you must be too!
yea,,, COSMETICS??!! In what scale?
What ever happened to Revelle? There are no hobby shops in my area.
Revell kits are still being made. Look on eBay at some of the hobby shops but it ow
Hi. They are back. Been offered under other names but many of the old kits are back under their original names however they are all actually the same US company that bought all the molds and names. Many are not available as the molds are missing or damaged. I met the guys doing this. Young guys on a mission to save all the old kits and brands. And make a few million in the process. Which is even better! Go for it! So far so good.
My inflation calc app says..
1962 $3.98
2019 $33.44
Yup. EBay has them at 35. So mostly the same.
Toy Man Television I find it amazing the relative value is so close..